Suppliant vs Beggar - What's the difference?
suppliant | beggar |
Entreating with humility.
* Milton
One who pleads or requests earnestly.
* 1963': I touch your beard as a '''suppliant , embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, ''Medea , trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)
A person who begs.
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, title= * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
* 1883 , :
As nouns the difference between suppliant and beggar
is that suppliant is one who pleads or requests earnestly or suppliant can be supplicant while beggar is .As an adjective suppliant
is entreating with humility or suppliant can be , begging, pleading, imploring.As a verb suppliant
is .suppliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* beseecher, petitioner, supplicantbeggar
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(wikipedia beggar)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!